Queer Kids are Not Alone: Searching for 2S-LGBTQIA+ Representation in Children’s Animated Television
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Within the last 10 years, there has been an increase of 2S-LGBTQIA+ representation within animated television shows for children aged 7-11 (Townsend, Deerwater, Adams & Trasandes, 2021; Loudon, 2020; Mihailova, 2019; Perlmutter, 2014). Simultaneously, animated stories often closely follow the experience of being othered, and discovering found family in like-minded individuals, similar to the experiences and development of 2S-LGBTQIA+ individuals (Loudon, 2020, Perea, 2018; Jane 2015; Halberstam 2011). This research study attempted to investigate if there was explicit 2S-LGBTQIA+ representation in children’s animated television shows for children aged 7-11 and what that representation looked like. This research paper was able to provide a snapshot of the current landscape of children’s animated television accessible in Canada, in relation to 2S-LGBTQIA+ representation, race, species gender and leadership.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".